mstrauss.bsky.social
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I feel bad because you have so many friends who tuck their Leafs sweaters into their jeans.
(Making fun but you know who I’m talking about)
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And yet, I can’t stop. Also, it’s the job. Words on paper make the mortgage smaller.
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You put Wunmi Mosaku and Michael B Jordan in a room together again and I’m showing up.
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Mitch-Tage-Tuch line.
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Oh, shit. Sorry @gailsimone.bsky.social You said short.
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I took decades for me to get an original copy but once I did, it was like finding a piece of myself that I’d been missing my whole life. Even though I went the long way around, without this book I’d have missed out on comics and missed out on one of the greatest joys of my life.
(Okay to use)
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I was 11 and while the Mutant Massacre was just about to break my brain, the first adventure of my X-Men lived up to all the weight and expectations my young mind had set upon it.
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Kurt being rescued from a Universal monster movie. Logan telling his boss to F off while cutting his tie. Ororo being a goddess from the first panel. John Proudstar pulling that bull down by the horns. If anyone could save the X-Men, these were the people to do it.
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94 & 95 with Thunderbird and NORAD. I had a bunch of the reprints of the original team and a bunch of 1-66 but then I got the early 80s reprint of Giant-Size 1 and got to read the origin of *my* X-Men, of *the* X-Men and it was everything I’d imagined for years.
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Brood Saga, Dr Doom freezing Storm as a statue, Dark Phoenix, Alpha Flight, all slowly going backwards while reading forward at the same time. Jean becoming Phoenix while her daughter Rachel tries to kill Selene.
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A couple years later, I was in a town that had an *actual* comic book store. A basement level shop with the “wall” books pinned to the rafters overhead. I used all my allowance every week buying back issues of X-Men for 75¢ to $1.25 apiece, filling backwards in the run.
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Spider-Man & his Amazing Friends introduced me to the X-Men. My cousin had a battered copy of issue 44 which I devoured (Red Raven must be their arch nemesis!). Not long after, I bought 175 off the spinner at the cigar store and was hooked for life.
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Yeah. I read the Gjallerbru issue a bunch digitally but reading the actual issue with the newsprint was an experience
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I knew about it but never read it until maybe ten years ago. It’s a perfect epic. Set myself to getting all the singles a couple years ago. I’m 337 and 371 away from a complete run.
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The ONLY Thor run.
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The boots with the fur!!!
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Which I can pair with the balloon Dead Uncle Ben.
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This was nearly my Top Shelf Friday pick yesterday.
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Since we’re talking Dazzler, how about a pic of Beauty and the Beast #2 with that great Sienkiewicz cover?
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I have about 80 issues of FF 200-300 all from $1 bins picked up over the last four years.
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The next time they reprint the omnibus editions of Kirby’s FF and Ditko’s ASM I’ll buy those, just to have them in the library.
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My oldest FF is 174 or thereabouts. I love Ben Grimm but am not a huge FF guy otherwise. Byrne/Simonson/Hickman.
There’s a dealer who’s at all the local cons who has a *roached* copy of the “This Man, This Monster” issue for like $35 and I’m always tempted to pull the trigger.
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I have no love for Sabretooth so I just want it to complete my Power Man & Iron Fist collection. Would happily pay $100 for a mid copy but I’m not going three bills for a slabbed one.
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The same one I need.
There was a 3.0 graded copy on EBay like 4-5 months ago with a buy-it-now price of $850 dollars. It seemed too scammy to be true and by the time I was done reading the eBay returns/money-back policy the book had sold.
This was at like 10AM on a Tuesday.
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If the one issue of DD you need for a complete run is 236, let me know. I have doubles.
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I’m missing Iron Fist 14 to have every issue and just haven’t been able to justify it, as much as I love Luke & Danny.
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My two “these are why I collect comics” titles are X-Men and Daredevil and those are the only two issues of either series I’m missing.
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I bought UXM 3 for $20 as a kid. UXM 2 for $540 two years ago (VG+ ish). And I won’t say what my mom paid for UXM 1 when I got that as a birthday present in the 80s.
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I want two commissions; a Paul Smith group shot of his X-Men and a Checchetto Daredevil. Willing to pay for both but I have two grail books (UXM 4 & DD 1) I need first before I dip into those waters.
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Wildly, I won a combo auction for Uncanny X-Men 8 & 10 (one slabbed, one not) on Heritage with a bid that was under my ceiling for UXM 10. Sometimes you get lucky.
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I put a lowball bid on it that was still far more than I was comfortable with and the winning bid was a couple thousand more.
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The artist proof of this cover was on Heritage maybe two years ago. I really wish I was in the weight class to have afforded it.
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It’s so, so good. I’m the second owner of this copy. Guy I bought it from at a con was selling his childhood collection.
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I snagged maybe a dozen Daredevil back issues from him when I was filling that run. Fairest prices around.
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Nice pickup. 25 was such a hard issue for me to find in the right price range.
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Another Uncanny X-Men for #TopShelfFriday, my favorite Neal Adams cover is issue 59.
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It was perfect.
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I’m hesitant to say what I want for a sequel because I don’t want it jinx it.